Fastening for ice-creepers



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FASTENING FOR ICE GREEPBRS. No. 410,331. Patented Sept. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM WV. PRESTON AND EDWARD F. PRESTON, OF BISMARCK, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORS TO THE PRESTON ICE CREEPER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FASTENING FOR ICE-CREEPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,331, dated September 3, 1889.

Application filed December 3, 1888- Serial No. 292,580. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: through. Below the head is the large neck I),

Be it known that we, WILLIAM IV. PRESTON long enough, preferably, to pass entirely and EDWARD F. PRESTON, citizens of the through the heel'plate and enter the body of United States, residing in Bismarck, in the the rubber, so as to form a countersinkinthe county of Eaton and State of Michigan, have rubber. Below this neck the nail is prolonged invented a new and useful Improvement in in a flat blade c-a form that may readily be Fastening-s for Securing Creepers, the, to Rubdriven through rubber and also easily bent. ber Shoes, of which the following is a specifi- The nail of course should be made of some cation. malleable metal, so that it is capable of bend- 10 The object of our invention is to provide ing for the clinching operation. means for readily securing heel-plates, wear- At Figs. 1 and 2, D is the rubber heel or ing-plates, ice-creepers, &c., to the heels and sole; E, the heel-plate, ice-creeper, or other soles of india-rubber shoes. The means emmetallic plate or object which is to be fastployed by us for this purpose and constitutened in place; and F, the internal washer, hav- 1 5 ing our invention consist of a metallic nail ing the central barf, over which the blade of made with a head and having its body bladethe nail is to be clinched. For the purpose shaped or fiat, so that itmay be readily driven of positioning this washer in the clinchingthrough the rubber and bent or clinched, in die of a nailing-machine we prefer to provide conjunction with an interior Washer havinga the two peripheral notches f f, which may 20 bar over which the flat blade of the nail may set over pins in the die; and in order that the be clinched or bent with sufficient force to bent portion of the nail in hooking over the produce considerable compression in the body barf may not project beyond the face of the of the rubber between the head of the nail washer we prefer to bend or arch the bar f and the washer, whereby all leakage around slightly, as indicated in the drawings. The

25 and looseness of the nail in its place is preportion of the washer surrounding the nailvented. openings is fiat, so it may bear upon and com- In the accompanying drawings, which form press the rubber around the nail. a part of this specification, and in which simi- Our improved fastener may be applied by lar letters of reference indicate like parts, hand with a simple rivetingdiammer and die;

0 Figure 1 is a sectional View of our improved but it is designed to be made more readily 8o fastening, taken through nail, heel-plate,rubwith a machine of our invention, which is deber heel, and interior washer. Fig. 2 is a scribed at length in an application for a patbottom View of what is shown at Fig. 1, showent filed simultaneously herewith, and which ing the interior face of the barred washer. machine consists, generally stated, in a driv- 35 Fig. 3 is a View, similar to the last, of the ing-punch, which holds and drives the nail, Washer itself detached. Fig. 4- is an edge and a counteringdie with a curved face for View of the washer. Figs. 5 and 6 are returning the blade of the nail to clinch the spectively a front and an edge View of the same around the barf of the washer. The blade-like nail. All the figures are upon a washer in the use of this machine is laid upon 40 somewhat enlarged scale. the countering-die in proper position, deter- In said drawings the blade-like nail is shown mined by two guide-pins entering the notches as composed of a head rounded on top and f f. The nail being driven through the rub- With a conical under side much like the head her and clinched over the bar by Whatever of a common wood-screw, except that the nick means, a compression is produced in the rub- 45 for the screw-driver is omitted. This head is her about the blade, and especially at the 5 distinguished by the letter a. Instead of havcountersunk neck of the nail, which makes ing this particular form, which is the form we the joint water-tight and the fastening one prefer, it may obviously be of any suitable which is at no time liable to work loose. shape so that it forms a suitable enlargement WVe claim-- 50 or shoulder to prevent the nail from drawing A fastening for attaching ice-creepers and analogous articles, consisting of a malleable diately around the nail, substantially as set nail having a large neck I), long enough to forth.

pass through the creeper and enter the body WILLIAM W. PRESTON.

of the rubber, and a fiat blade 0, in cornbina- EDWARD F. PRESTON. 5 tion With the Washer F, having a central bar itnesses:

f, around Which the nail may be clinched, H. M. MUNDAY,

said Washer bearing upon the rubber innne- JOHN V. MUNDAY. 

